Azure gives you an option to upgrade the gateway to the Web Application Firewall tier. When you select the Upgrade to WAF Tier checkbox, the Azure portal reveals a few extra options (see Figure 4 ).

The Azure Web Application Firewall allows customers to fortify applications so they are less susceptible to cross-site scripting attacks, SQL injection and other attack methods.

Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure Application Gateway starting this week. Azure Web Application ...

Microsoft uses the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) rulesets for its Azure WAF, so choose the version you want and apply it to your application gateway along with rules that manage ...

Azure Web Application Firewall Blocks Cyber-Threats on Microsoft Cloud. By. eWEEK Staff - April 5, 2017. Share. ... The firewall provides protection for up to 20 websites per gateway.

Azure Security Center offers provisioning of application gateway WAF to an existing Azure resource as well as adding a new resource to an existing web application firewall. By integrating with WAF, ...

Although the Azure Web Application Firewall is a Microsoft solution, certainly there's no shortage of WAFs available from the likes of Akamai Technologies Inc., Barracuda Networks Inc., Citrix ...